The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1887-09-22
SAVED By A KISS
ELMA GRIFFIN AwAKENED IN HER
COFFIN BY HER LOVERS CAREss.

oged 10 years, 4 months and 6 days.
The words we're engraved upon Q
silver plate, but thero was no coflit
nnder them Mrs. Purroy, oil ell
derIy lady, visiting friends living OF
Clinton avenue, Alameda but who's,
home is in Brooklyn, N. Y. looked
with an air Of mingled pride auC
reverence upon the carving, for bel
name was once Elma Griffin thai
was made to hold her remains.
"On my nineteenth birthday she
said, my mother invited party o.
acquaintances to oar house TO coles
brate the day We lived some dis
tauce outside Of Willamsburgh, as
it was then, and the ground was a
little soft and boggy. One OF my
friends remembered this as sho was
about to start for her home with her
brother, aud sue langhingly congrat1
ulated mo on being housed already
and bayirg no occasion to brave tbs
swamp. | was wild young girl in
those days, and l declared nc opce
that / would go with them and re-
turn alone. Everybody tried to
dissuado Inc except the girls broth-
or. We started, and when we reach,
ed my friends house was conscious
that my feet were qnite wet, and
that disagrseablo chill had crept
over me, but declined an invita-
tion to so in and went away at once.
OF course, Rob-thc brother, /
mean-came with mo, and somehow
| forgot the cold and damp as !
walked home
i think we must have talked q
long time as We stood on my uncle's
doorsteps, for suddenly Rob-my
escord, mean-said /: 'Elma, your
face is very pale. Have l kept you
standing hero too long ? He talked
to me for ten minutes after that,
apd then wished mo good night and
left me. l rang the bell, and when
my mother opened the door told
her what might have known On
hour sooner, if l had given it a
thought, that was really ILL., She
hurried me to bed Immediately, aud
when she came 10 tell me the follow
ing morning she looked very anx>
ious. BY noon was delirious, but
| could hear the doctor tell my
mother l had typhoid fever, and
that he could not hold out much
hope for my recovery. | knew that
my mother was weeping, but was
always q selfish girl, and | conld on
iy cry out Robert Robert |!
Where is Robert and they told me,
hardly thinking that l heard them,
that Robert had been suddenly call
ed upon to start for California early
that morning, and had not oven
heard Of my illness. lie sent let
ter TO me however, but l did not SEQ
it until many weeks later.
4 grew rapidly worse, and grad
uaily the knowledge Of all outward
things passed from me. l fancy
that l had certain consciousness;
but not of matters around me.
was in another state Of being, in
which the person acting aud speak,
ing-always strangely speaking
was myself, and yet not myself
Then came an utter blank, from
which / awoke, after nearly three
weeks of oblivion, to see my mother
and the doctor standing by my bed.
side. The doctor said the crisis was
past and | should probably recover,
but | did not feel any interest in
what he was talking about.
The quiet days Of convalescence
followed, aud the doctor, seeing that
! was very weak, regarded me se-
riously, and warned my mother that
a relapse should be carefully guard
cd against. / ueed at that time,
too, to fall into curious physical con-
ditions that suppose were frances,
in which l knew all that was going
on around me but from which did
not seem to care to arouse myself by
moveing or speaking These periods
lasted longer and longer, but they
were not observed, aud as they were
rather pleasant than otherwise |
said nothing about them.
'One morning ] awoke from what
seemed to me natur sleep ard lay
with my eyes closed listening to
sounds that could not at first in
terpret but slowly the knowledge